List of parapsychologists

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Contents 1 Famous parapsychologists 1.1 Eastern mystics 1.2 Others who have contributed to this field 1.3 Well-known psychic mediums 1.4 Other claimed psychics

[edit] Famous parapsychologists

• Hans Bender
• William Crookes
• Charles Honorton
• Lawrence Leshan - psychologist and author of The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist: Toward a General Theory of the Paranormal
• Oliver Lodge
• William McDougall
• Jeffrey Mishlove only US PhD in the subject
• Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
• Frederick W. H. Myers
• Harry Price
• Andrija Puharich brought Uri Geller to worldwide notice
• Harold E. Puthoff, physicist
• Dean Radin - Author of The Conscious Universe, which examines the scientific evidence in parapsychology.
• Carl Reichenbach
• Joseph B. Rhine, first modern academic research in the field
• Charles Robert Richet
• Helmut Schmidt
• Gary Schwartz
• Giuseppe Calligaris
• Henry Sidgwick
• Ingo Swann , developed Remote viewing
• Nancy Ann Tappe parapsychologist, San Deigo, Calif. who in 1970's noticed the emergence of children with an indigo aura. This color she reasoned coincided with a new consciousness. She was the first to describe indigo children. (Detroit News, Page 4F, 24 Jan 2006)
• Charles Tart University of California professor
• Alfred Russel Wallace, 1823-1913 co-discoverer of evolution, and author of The Scientific Aspect of the Supernatural: Indicating the Desirableness of an Experimental Enquiry by Men of Science Into the Alleged Powers of Clairvoyants and Mediums 1866. online
• Elizabeth Coyle Seer, graduate of Harvard Divinity School, gifts recognized by the Vatican.
• Dr. Ciaran O'Keeffe Most Haunted's resident parapsychologist, and co-author of Ghost Hunters.

[edit] Eastern mystics

• Rais Amrohvi
• Khwaja Shamsuddin Azeemi

[edit] Others who have contributed to this field

The following are famous primarily for fields other than parapsychology but still had important working interests in the field:

• Hans Eysenck
• Alister Hardy
• Carl Jung
• Arthur Koestler beside sympathetic writings, he endowed the Chair of Parapsychology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland [1]
• Rupert Sheldrake

[edit] Well-known psychic mediums

• Daniel Dunglas Home — most famous physical medium of the 19th century
• Edgar Cayce — claimed to be a psychic healer in the first half of the 20th century. He gave readings about Atlantis' advanced technology, and past lives. (Cayce, 1968)
• Kuda Bux firewalker, famous for being able to see with his eyes covered by coins, tape, dough, gauze, etc.
• John Edward — Host of TV show Crossing Over in which he claimed to communicate with the dead.
• Rev.Lauren Kelley, C. Ht. — Psychic, hypnotherapist and healer in the Altanta, GA area. Popular guest on local radio shows.
• James van Praagh — Host of syndicated TV show in which he claimed to communicate with the dead.
• Tom Rannachan — Scottish "Psychic Medium" who claims to talk with the dead & receive accurate premonitions.
• Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru; materialization of small objects
• Elizabeth Baron, Internationlly Known Medium - guest on national radio & television shows.

[edit] Other claimed psychics

• Sylvia Browne — received the Pigasus Award, Category #4 for 2004 for claiming to see in July, 2004 that Osama Bin Laden was dead, predicting in 2003 that Saddam Hussein would be found dead by year's end, and other nonsense. Sylvia won in category #2 in 2003.
• Miss Cleo
• Mina Crandon "Margery" — last noted physical medium in the USA and widely thought to be fraudulent
• Gerard Croiset
• Natasha Demkina — "The girl with x-ray eyes"
• Jeane Dixon — claimed to have the Divine gift of being able to predict the future.
• William and Horatio Eddy — 19th Century Vermont psychics. Their spirit cabinet performances were very similar to that of the famous Davenport Brothers.
• Leslie Flint
• Uri Geller — Self-proclaimed telekinetic, famous for bending handled spoons in television shows. Traveled the world with his confederates, who sometimes posed as news reporters. He was deported from Israel, his home country.
• Jim Jones — claimed to perform healings. He was the leader of the Peoples Temple that committed mass suicide in 1978
• Joseph McMoneagle Former US Army intelligence officer, currently a corporate remote viewer
• Wolf Messing
• Ted Owens — claimed to have the ability in predicting and controlling weather, earthquakes, and volcanoes through psychokinesis
• Eusapia Palladino— accused of using her foot to levitate table and other deceptions by conjurers in hiding who watched her methods at close hand. (Rinn, 1950)
• Leonora Piper The foremost trance medium in the history of psychical research. She personally stated that she had never reached a conclusion of whether or not she was in touch with the spirits of the dead.
• JoJo Savard